COMMENTARIES
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Taliban Tracker
Talks with the TTP: How Far will the State Go?
D Suba Chandran · 07 Feb, 2014 · #4297 · Commentary
The renewed attempts by the Pakistani State to initiate another round of dialogue with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have gained momentum, and numerous measures are in place. The government has appointed a four-member committee to negotiat...
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J&K
Cross LoC Trade: Continuing Stalemate
Ayesha Khanyari · 07 Feb, 2014 · #4296 · Commentary
Early in January 2014, Islamabad halted the movement of trucks across the India-Pakistan border in Kashmir, after Indian authorities impounded a narcotics-laden truck entering India from the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Additionally, Pakistan ...
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J&K
LoC Trade Under Fire
Shujaat Bukhari · 06 Feb, 2014 · #4295 · Commentary
Notwithstanding many inherent bottlenecks, the cross Line of Control (LoC) trade between two parts of erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir had emerged as a significant achievement of the peace process that started with a ceasefire along the LoC ...
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J&K
Cross-LoC Trade and Our Collective Failure
D Suba Chandran · 06 Feb, 2014 · #4294 · Commentary
The cross-LoC trade between two parts of J&K has been stopped once again. This time the reason is the arrest of a driver from the other side, who was found by the Indian authorities bringing Brown Sugar. Smuggling across the international bo...
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US-Afghanistan: Implications of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA)
Rajeev Agarwal · 06 Feb, 2014 · #4293 · Commentary
The debate on the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the US has been reignited after the State of the Union address by the US President on in January 2014. While the US is insisting on signing it at the ear...
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China: From Investment to Consumption-Led Growth
Tilak Jha · 06 Feb, 2014 · #4292 · Commentary
Current trends suggest China’s slow march towards becoming a consumption-led economy, balancing what some economists term irreconcilable but inevitable in China’s case: growth and reform. Chinese GDP grew by 7.7 per cent in 2013 &ndash...
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US and Asia Pacific
Is the Rebalancing Merely Symbolic?
Venkat Lokanathan · 04 Feb, 2014 · #4291 · Commentary
With the US stepping up effort towards its Asian rebalancing strategy, three fundamental elements must be understood: Are the US strategic lenses now shifting away from Europe to Asia? Is Asia the playground for the next Great Game? ...
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Af-Pak Diary
Taliban Talks and the Four Horsemen: Between Peace and Apocalypse
D Suba Chandran · 03 Feb, 2014 · #4290 · Commentary · Column
The previous article in this column discussed the talks about talks with the Pakistani Taliban, and Sami-ul-Haq being projected as the interlocutor between the State and the Teherik-e-Taliban (TTP).
Since the previous colum...
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Seminar Report
Contemporary East Asia
Angana Guha Roy · 03 Feb, 2014 · #4289 · Commentary
Dr Sandip Mishra
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
Perspectives on South Korea can be observed at three levels: domestic, peninsular and regional. At the domestic level, controversy related to the presi...
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Himalayan Frontier
Constituent Assembly-II: Rifts Emerging
Pramod Jaiswal · 03 Feb, 2014 · #4288 · Commentary · Column
In the words of Aristotle, “Well begun is half done.” However, the second Constituent Assembly (CA) of Nepal is getting hiccups right from the beginning. The political parties do not seem to have learned much from the past. Though al...
